The Yale School of Music Opera Program will present Giuseppe Verdi’s passionate love story, “La Traviata,” as its major production of the year. The opera will be performed at the Shubert Theater in New Haven on Friday, February 28, and Saturday, March...
“Belly Talkers,” a highly-acclaimed documentary about ventriloquists and their art, will be screened on Tuesday, March 4, at 6:30 p.m. and 9:15 p.m. at Yale University’s Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall Street. Directed by Sandra Luckow–professional...
Nobel laureate Dr. Harold Varmus, director of the National Institutes of Health, NIH, will present a lecture as the Jonathan Edwards College, JE, Tetelman Fellow on Monday, March 3, at noon in the School of Medicine’s Harkness Auditorium, 333 Cedar St....
Yale University will host a conference to explore the future of East Timor, Thursday, March 6, at 4 p.m. “The Question of Autonomy and Human Rights in East Timor” will be held in the Law School auditorium, 127 Wall Street. East Timor was a...
Animated films by Faith and Emily Hubley will be screened on Tuesday, March 4, at 5:30 p.m. in Hastings Hall, Art and Architecture Building, 180 York St. The event is free and open to the public. For mobility-impaired access, call 432-2645. A long-...
An anonymous gift from a grateful member of the Class of 1982 will honor noted writer, critic and poet Marie Borroff, Sterling Professor Emeritus of English. The gift will establish the Marie Borroff Scholarship Fund, which will award financial aid to...
The Council on East Asian Studies will present a talk by the Distinguished Fulbright Scholar Charles K. Kao on “The Role of Hong Kong After 1997,” today, March 4 at 4:30 p.m. in the Luce Hall Auditorium. A reception will follow. Prof. Kao is Hong...
The Honorable James T. Laney, U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Korea, will deliver the 1996-97 Margaret Lindquist Sorensen Lecture on Wednesday, March 26, at 4 p.m. in Yale Divinity School’s Marquand Chapel, 409 Prospect Street. His topic will be “...
How can historians create meaningful narrative out of a jumble of past events? What if those events are unimaginably horrible? rooted deep in history and living memory, yet influenced by passing political trends? Historians face such questions all the...
From Mississippi to Morocco, from Brazil to Burma, human rights abuses are all too common. Although the perpetrators may try to hide their offenses from public view, documentary filmmakers around the world record the horrors and bring them into the...